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Follow the impact on Twitter of the Confederations Cup [16/06/2013]
We are analyzing the impact on Twitter in the Confederations Cup held in Brazil until next June 30th. In this blog http://confederationscup.barcelonamedia.org/ you will find the details of everything that is said in microblogging network regarding the competition.+ Read moreJaume Casals, new President of the board of Trustees of Barcelona Media[05/06/2013]
Jaume Casals Pons has taken over as Rector of the University Pompeu Fabra in a ceremony held at the Ciutadella Campus of the University and with the assistance of institutional and university authorities.+ Read moreExtending activity to new sectors [04/06/2013]
Future opportunities in research lie in the capacity to “generate applications for different sectors apart from the mass media”, in a scenario where “development and algorithms based on research oriented towards the mass media have extraordinary potential to generate applications for other sectors”, said Jaume Ferrús, executive vice-president of Barcelona Media.+ Read moreVisit of Vic University [02/06/2013]
Barcelona Media has received a visit from a group of professors from the Faculty of Business and Communication and the Polytechnic School of the University of Vic. This meeting has laid the groundwork for possible future collaborations.+ Read more -
Brasil opts for technology[31/05/2013]
The Government of the State of Mato Grosso, through the Secretariat of State for Science and Technology (SECITEC), in partnership with other state bodies and Barcelona Media´s technical assistance, carried out a Technical Mission: Centers of Innovation and Technology Parks in Europe - (Spain and France).+ Read moreA new fellowship programme to foster the mobility of experienced researchers focused on Technology Transfer [01/05/2013]
TECNIOSPRING is a new fellowship programme that provides financial support to individual mobility proposals presented by experienced researchers in liaison with a TECNIO centre. The programme will offer fellows 2-year employment contracts, with the corresponding social security provisions.+ Read moreCollaboration agreement with AGAUR and I-CERCA [04/04/2013]
Barcelona Media, the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and Fundació CTM Centre Tecnològic have signed with the Agency for Administration of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) and the Foundation Institution of Catalan Research Centers (I-NEAR) a collaboration agreement for the financing of strategic advice and scientific workshops.+ Read moreBMiBrazil opens its new offices in Salvador de Bahía[24/03/2013]
In March Barcelona Media Inovação Brazil (BMiBrazil) opens its new offices in Salvador de Bahía, after a year of activity in Brazil, a market that offers significant opportunities for the products and services developed by the technology centre, particularly in the fields of tourism, culture and technology.+ Read more -
DICO(RE)2S: the discount coupon revolution [24/03/2013]
Barcelona Media participates in the development of the project DICO(RE)2S(Discount Coupon Recommendation and Redemption System), which has created a platform that allows discount coupons to be offered to consumers in a personalised way.+ Read moreThe Mobile World Congress sweeps Twitter worldwide, with a daily average of 100.000 tweets [28/02/2013]
The Mobile World Congress has generated an daily average of 100,000 tweets, a volume that has placed MWC13 as Trending Topic from February 25, at 10.00 am, to 26 February, at 19.05 pm, reflecting its enormous impact on the social conversation.+ Read moreBarcelona Media anticipates new applications for digital economy at MWC [13/02/2013]
Barcelona Media will show advanced technologies at the Mobile World Congress that will anticipate the future of the digital economy, in fields such as advertising, the Internet information analysis and data visualization on mobile devices.+ Read moreA moving tribute to Vicente López at the Gaudí and Goya Awards[04/02/2013]
Oriol Tarragó and Marc Orts received the Gaudí Award for Best Sound for the film "The Impossible", created with the immersive audio technology of imm sound, the first start-up of Barcelona Media and recently acquired by Dolby Laboratories.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media expands its international market [24/01/2013]
Barcelona Media has expanded its international market by identifying new opportunities for the implementation of industrial projects where the centre’s experience and technology can add value to sectors such as security, health, transport, tourism and sport.+ Read moreBarcelona Media Board of Trustees[03/01/2013]
The Barcelona Media Board of Trustees met on December. During the meeting they approved several agreements which included appointing Jaume Ferrús as First Vice President and President of the Executive Board (appointed by the Board of Trustees), Ricardo Baeza as Second Vice President (appointed by Yahoo! Iberia), and Josep Martínez Rovira as Third Vice President…+ Read moreA delegation from the Government of Singapore visits Barcelona Media [19/12/2012]
Barcelona Media has received a delegation from the Government of Singapore, which has traveled to the city on a program for economic development organized by Barcelona Activa, the local development agency of the City Council, which included a visit to the 22 @ district.+ Read more -
Central Brazil: ready to improve its competitiveness in the tourist industry [18/12/2012]
The region called Central Brazil, involving Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and the Federal District, now boasts a tourism plan to develop its range of offers and improve its competitiveness in the tourist industry.+ Read more
Wikipedia brings political opponents together [15/12/2012]
“A neutral point of view”, or the requirement that articles must present all significant viewpoints in a balanced manner, is one of Wikipedia’s three core principles.+ Read moreMoscow is also committed to the creative industries [14/12/2012]
On 21 and 22 November Barcelona Media participated in the European Digital Think Tank event in Helsinki, and also took the opportunity to meet with Moscow Creative Industries (Skolkovo Technopark).+ Read moreATRAPA: a system to aid real-time decision-making at airports[13/12/2012]
The ATRAPA project came under the spotlight at the Intergraph SG&I Spain Users’ Conference in Madrid on 20 and 21 November, where it was the subject of a presentation by Mcrit.+ Read more -
Entrepreneurship with Values [11/12/2012]
Barcelona Media welcomed students undertaking the “Entrepreneurship with Values” initiative, which is part of the Proyecto de Vida Profesional (Professional Life Project) organised by Barcelona Activa, the Consorcio de Educación de Barcelona (Barcelona Education Consortium) and the Fundación BCN Fundación Profesional.+ Read moreVisit by a delegation from Antofagasta [10/12/2012]
A delegation of professionals from the Antofagasta region of Chile has visited Barcelona Media as part of a two-week-long trip to Spain designed to help them learn about innovation-related projects that may be suitable for application in the region.+ Read moreOver one million tweets in Catalonia’s election campaign [29/11/2012]
The election campaign in Catalonia generated around 1,380,000 tweets, according to a Barcelona Media research study on social media, which also showed that election day itself was the peak for activity on the microblogging social network with over 325,000 tweets.+ Read moreBarcelona Media Inovação Brasil: a project contributing to Brazil’s economic growth [08/09/2012]
Barcelona Media Inovação Brasil, the company created by Barcelona Media and headquartered in Salvador de Bahía, has signed collaboration agreements with the Brazilian Ministry of Culture for the development of projects and programmes designed to showcase the richness of the country’s cultural assets.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media has generated 60 million euros for the media sector over the last four years[28/08/2012]
Barcelona Media has generated a total of 60 million euros for the media and communications sector over the last four years, through European, national and regional competitiveness funds.+ Read moreBarcelona Media and Icària Project: two years of collaboration[12/08/2012]
The partnership between Barcelona Media and Icària Campus of International Excellence project will be two years next 1st September. This initiative, led by Pompeu Fabra University, was created to accelerate the process of excellence and international projection which the university has promoted since its creation.+ Read moreDolby acquires imm sound, Barcelona Media’s first start-up[31/07/2012]
The Dolby Laboratories company has acquired imm sound, Barcelona Media’s first start-up and a specialist in immersive 3D sound for the film industry. imm sound will form part of Dolby’s catalogue and its immersive solution integrated into the parent company’s 3D sound technology.+ Read moreICE3 launches its website[04/07/2012]
The ICE3 project (Integrating Calls Early Education Environment) has launched its website (http://iceee.barcelonamedia.org/courses), which includes information about the programme, courses for students and proposals for teaching staff.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media, Affiliate Member of the World Tourism Organization [25/06/2012]
Barcelona Media is part of the World Tourism Organization as Affiliate Member since June 2012. The UNWTO Affiliate Members are companies (public or private), organizations, destinations, NGOs, educational institutions or bodies whose activities are related to tourism and which contribute to the UNWTO their knowledge and expertise to promote the development of tourism that’s responsible,…+ Read more2020 3D Media, a successful project[25/06/2012]
The 2020 3D Media project, carried out between February 2008 and February this year, has received an excellent assessment from the European Commission, beyond the quality of its research and rigorous management, for having managed to introduce products in the market as a result of research.+ Read moreBarcelona Media installs the BM Multiuser Interactive Table at the Sanctuary of Lluc[07/06/2012]
Barcelona Media has installed the BM Multiuser Interactive Table at the Sanctuary of Lluc in Majorca. At this module table which in this case measures 2.60 m x 1 m, up to six visitors can view different content related to the site.+ Read moreA study of the links in the Wikipedia that made history[25/04/2012]
Wikipedia is the sixth most visited website in the world. Its articles written collaboratively represent the primary source of information on many topics for millions of people. In fact, they can be considered a mirror of the global collective memory. The Social Media research line of Barcelona Media has analyzed biographies of people on Wikipedia…+ Read more -
Barcelona Media is developing an orthodontic application with advanced usability[04/04/2012]
Barcelona Media has developed an iPad orthodontics application designed by Doctor Lluís Carrière, which shows the advantages of the process of dental correction developed by this specialist.+ Read moreICE3 brings teaching materials with automatic correction into the classroom[02/04/2012]
The ICE3 project (Integrating Calls Early Education Environment), coordinated by Barcelona Media and funded by the Lifelong Learning programme, promotes language learning in Primary and Secondary schools. The aim is to foster and help teachers to generate teaching/learning content with automatic correction, which offers the student an explanation about their answer, both from a linguistic…+ Read moreA new project to develop tourism in Central Brazil[12/03/2012]
The team at the Culture and Tourism Laboratory has started the year with a new project in Brazil focused on preparing the Tourism Development Plan for the Centre-West region, which includes the states of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazilia DF and Goiás.+ Read moreThe European Creative Cluster Lab project starts up[08/03/2012]
The city of Stuttgart in Germany has played host to the start up of the European Creative Cluster Lab (ECCL) project - Managing Networked Creativity to Boost European Competitiveness, in which Barcelona Media is participating.+ Read more -
Kaplan opens the events of the tenth anniversary of Barcelona Media[07/03/2012]
Martin Kaplan, Norman Lear professor in Entertainment, Media and Society at the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California Los Angeles, opened the programme of public events that Barcelona Media will be holding over the coming months to celebrate its tenth anniversary.+ Read moreMartin Kaplan talks about about the transformation of the content industry[21/02/2012]
Martin Kaplan, Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California - Los Angeles California, will speak at Barcelona Media about the transformation of the content industry.+ Read moreBarcelona Media, at the Mobile World Congress[20/01/2012]
Barcelona Media will be present at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) where it will display its projects and services at the Catalan pavillion of this call, considered the most important fort he mobile communication sector.+ Read moreBarcelona Media participates in the first study about social media in Spain[07/12/2011]
Barcelona Media participates in the first study about social media in Spain, released in December. Researchers from the Information, Technology and Society research line at Barcelona Media have applied the graph theory to study the complete univers of Tuenti and Meneame.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media, also in Twitter[11/10/2011]
Barcelona Media is already in Twitter. You can follow us on @Barcelona_Media, a new channel of communication with the technological center.+ Read moreBarcelona Media starts a project to promote the touristic development in the North of Cisjordan[04/10/2011]
The Culture and Tourism Laboratory of Barcelona Media has started a project in Jenin, in the North of Cisjordan. The project aims to develop the tourism industry in the province. It was a petition of the Palestine Government of the province, with the suport of the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for the Development (AECID).+ Read moreBarcelona Media will collaborate with the Culture Ministry in Brazil[20/09/2011]
Barcelona Media will collaborate with the Ministry of Culture in Brazil in the creation of projects and programmes destined to put value on the cultural assets of the country.+ Read moreBarcelona's Gothic quarter in 3D, also for iPad[19/09/2011]
The launch of this application for mobile devices is part of the pioneering project " Barcelona in Gothic " of Barcelona Media, created in the frame of the subprogramme Avanza Contenidos, of the Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade, in collaboration with the Museum of History of Barcelona (MUHBA).+ Read more -
COM Radio interviews Jaime Carbonell[28/06/2011]
The Eureka! Programme, from COM Radio, interviewed Jaime Carbonell, one of the experts of the International Scientific Committee of Barcelona Media, during his visit to Barcelona.+ Read moreBarcelona Media and CIDAUT sign a collaboration agreement[14/06/2011]
On June 6 Barcelona Media and CIDAUT signed a collaboration agreement. The agreement promotes cooperation between the two centers for joint initiatives in the prescription, collection and monitoring of new clients and projects.+ Read moreWorld experts in the media sector in the Barcelona Media's International Scientific Committee[09/06/2011]
Barcelona Media’s International Scientific Committee gathered together in a two day meeting on June 9 & 10. The expert group is related to the research areas of Barcelona Media and its members belong to universities and leading companies in the media industry worldwide.+ Read moreCafé com Turismo[28/04/2011]
Pere Muñoz, Director of the Laboratory of Culture and Tourism of Barcelona Media, will be the speaker of the 7 th edition of Tourism-Encontros Café as Empresariais in Salvador de Bahia+ Read more -
Barcelona Media crea elCorrector, el primer corrector gramatical de català per a iPhone i iPad[20/04/2011]
Barcelona Media has created elCorrector, the first Catalan grammar for mobile devices iPhone and iPad. To celebrate its launching, the application is available for free download from the iTunes App Store until next April 23, coinciding with the Feast of Sant Jordi.+ Read moreURBAS “Urban Acoustic Simulator"[31/03/2011]
Barcelona Media’s Virtual Visualization Laboratory and the research line in Audio have worked together over the past two years in the project URBAS "Urban Acoustic Simulator."+ Read moreThe Barcelona History Museum and Barcelona Media present Barcelona In Gothic[18/03/2011]
Barcelona in gothic is a pilot research project that has been developed in the last two years in the frame of the subprogramme Avanza Contenidos of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, under the leadership of Barcelona Media and in collaboration with the Barcelona History Museum.+ Read moreThe map of friendship[16/02/2011]
The Information, Technology and Society research line of Barcelona Media has produced a map of friendship that graphically displays the connections between social network users in Spain. The work has been done in collaboration with the company Tuenti.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media is certified according to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001[15/02/2011]
The technical services company and certification body TÜV Rheinland has certified the integrated management system of Barcelona Media, according to international standards ISO 9001, system of quality management and ISO 14001 environmental management system.+ Read moreSocial Computing: Analytics and Modeling[19/01/2011]
Ricard Ruiz de Querol, Andreas Kaltenbrunner and Karolin Kappler, researchers from the Information Technology and Society research line at Barcelona Media, will present the seminar "Social Computing: Analytics and Modeling" on January 26th at an event organized by IN3.+ Read moreThe European project Emotion achieves its goals[12/11/2010]
On 3rd and 4th November the project Emotion carried out the final meeting at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research at the University of Plymouth, UK.+ Read moreBarcelona Media and Sitges Tourism sign a collaboration agreement[08/11/2010]
Barcelona Media and Turismo de Sitges sign a collaboration agreement Barcelona Media and the Agencia Promoció Turisme de Sitges, have signed an agreement with the objective of implementing new technologies through several actions to promote the economic fabric of the city and the touristic industry, in the frame of the Qualia Sitges project.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media disseminates its research at the NEM Summit 2010[21/10/2010]
On 14th and 15th October the Networked Media Technologies congress, NEM Summit 2010, was held on its third edition. This year's edition took place for the first time in Barcelona, at the Hesperia Tower Hotel convention center in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat.+ Read moreThe Social Media CENIT led by Yahoo! Iberia starts with a meeting of all the partners at the Imagina Auditorium[07/10/2010]
The Social Media Cenit, led by Yahoo! Iberia, starts its activity with a two day meeting at the Imagina building auditorium.+ Read moreA Barcelona Media success case in the Connect EU sessions[06/10/2010]
On the occasion of the conference Connect EU, organized last September by ACC10 and Talència, Barcelona Media has been invited to present a success case of a European collaborative project.+ Read moreBarcelona Media at the Brussels ICT 2010[06/10/2010]
ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) took place in Brussels from 27 to 29 September. ICT is organized by the European Commission and it aims at bringing together researchers, innovators and benchmarks in the world of research in Europe.+ Read more -
ECMLPKDD 2010, in Barcelona for the first time[27/09/2010]
The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases ( ECML PKKD ) 2010 have taken place from 20th to 24th September at the Casa Convalescencia in Barcelona.+ Read moreEuropean evaluation of 2020 3D Media in Barcelona[20/05/2010]
On May 20th and 21th the annual review of the European project 2020 3D Media took place in Barcelona. The 14 partners of the project, including Barcelona Media as technical and administrative coordinator, are companies and universities from all over Europe.+ Read more -
The 2020 3D Media project, exhibited at the National Audiovisual Broadcasting 2010[19/04/2010]
The European Project 2020 3D Media, coordinated by Barcelona Media, has been invited to participate in the most important audiovisual fair worldwide, the NAB show (National Audiovisual Broadcasting) held in Las Vegas from 12th to 15th April.+ Read moreLeeds visits Barcelona Media[31/03/2010]
In the frame of the “Leeds in Barcelona, a Festival of Commerce & Culture” from March 23rd to 25th, Barcelona Media welcomed a delegation formed by 10 representatives of the entrepreneurial and institutional world of the city of Leeds.+ Read moreEuropean Digital Think Tank and the European Forum on Cultural Industries[31/03/2010]
The European Digital Think Tank cluster, of which Barcelona Media is founding member, was present in the European Forum on Cultural Industries held in Barcelona on 29th and 30th March.+ Read moreBarcelona Media takes innovation to the Barcelona's zoo[29/03/2010]
On Wednesday 24th March, Barcelona’s Zoo opened its new attraction Terra de Dragons (Land of Dragons), including a 3D audiovisual production developed by the Barcelona Media’s Culture and Tourism Lab and the Audio Research Line, in collaboration with Emblemma Espais Audiovisuals and Codi AV.+ Read more -
Pasqual Maragall visits Barcelona Media[11/03/2010]
On Friday 5 March, Pasqual Maragall, former president of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona's former mayor and current president of the Foundation Catalunya Europa, visited Barcelona Media accompanied by Jordi Serra, chief of cabinet, and Max Vives, director of the Foundation Catalunya Europe.+ Read moreBarcelona Media participates in the "Career Opportunities Day - Communication Sector"[01/03/2010]
On February 24th, Barcelona Media participated in the " Career Opportunities Day - Communication Sector", organized by Barcelona Activa, within the framework of the project Porta 22 of the same entity.+ Read moreInternet dreams: ethical challenges researching digital technologies[03/02/2010]
Barcelona Media has organized the seminar "Internet Dreams: ethical challenges researching digital technologies" by Adolfo Estalella.+ Read more"Multimedia technologies in order to be attractive and to cross borders"[28/01/2010]
22@ Barcelona and Pimec organized the event Financing, technology and training in the stage of postcrisis, on 27th January, at the CINC Barcelona’s building.+ Read more -
The Culture and Tourism Lab of Barcelona Media presents the Tourism Master Plan of Hue, Vietnam[27/01/2010]
Ana Requejo and Damià Moragues from the Laboratory of Culture and Tourism presented in Hue (Vietnam) the final document of the Master Plan, which must plan the future development of this city, former imperial capital of the country with the aim of becoming an important cultural “hub” in South-East Asia.+ Read moreJordi Pardo participates in the digital book “Creative City Perspectives”[19/01/2010]
The book Creative City Perspectives has been published with the collaboration of eighteen experts in creative economy and creative cities. This work is addressed to a diverse audience: urban planners, economists, sociologists or cultural managers.+ Read moreJordi Arquès, of Barcelona Media, nominated to the Premis Gaudí de Cinema[14/01/2010]
Jordi Arquès, researcher of Barcelona Media’s Audio research line, along with Ola Apenes, Kenneth Gustav, and Jordi Casuga, is one of the nominees for the Premis Gaudí de Cinema for the film The Frost, nominated for best sound.+ Read moreBarcelona Media collaborates in the "Especial 12 x 12"[31/12/2009]
Barcelona Media, member of TECNIO, has collaborated in the debate “Especial 12x12”, organized by Barcelona Digital.+ Read more -
Toni Badia presents AUTOELARN at the ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN[23/12/2009]
Toni Badia, director of the research line of voice and language of Barcelona Media, has participated in the seminar "Learning, innovation and ICT." The seminar was developed in the days prior to the ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN conference, held in December in Berlin.+ Read moreBarcelona Media, present at the Paris Region Innovation Tour[15/12/2009]
The Paris Region Innovation Tour (PRIT) was held on November 30th. Marta Ysern of Barcelona Media participated in the event along with representatives of 22@Barcelona and the Clusters Barcelona Disseny and Barcelona Digital.+ Read moreBarcelona Media with the music of BandArt at the Auditorium[24/11/2009]
The BM research team in audio conducted the recording of the BandArt concert in the Auditorium on 16th November.+ Read moreThe House of Languages Visitor's Centre opens its doors[23/11/2009]
Since early 2007, the Barcelona Media Culture and Tourism Lab. is involved in the project to create Linguamón - House of Languages. A project initiated by the Government in order to promote the use and development of all languages, and which is destined to become a new engine for the city of Barcelona and a…+ Read more -
3D Media Workshop at the Fraunhofer, Berlin[23/10/2009]
Barcelona Media has participated in the seminar 3D Media Workshop organized by the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications Heinrich-Herz-Institut in Berlin. The 3D Media Workshop was held on 15 and 16 October and has covered the areas of capture, post production, transmission, display, business models and human factors.+ Read moreThe members of the European project Apidis gather together in Barcelona[20/10/2009]
On October 14th & 15th, 2009, partners Barcelona Media and Mediapro hosted a technical meeting of the European project APIDIS (Autonomous Production of Images Based on Distributed and Intelligent Sensing). The project began on 1 January 2008 and runs until 31 December 2010 (36 months).+ Read moreImmersive User Experience[16/10/2009]
"Immersive User Experience" was the title of the presentation given by Raquel Navarro-Prieto, Barcelona Media, on 24 September in Brussels. The event took place within the frame of the workshop "The Future of Networked Immersive Media" organized by the Department of Electronic Networked Information Society and Media DG (DG INFSO) of the European Commission.+ Read moreThe 5th International Seminar on Cultural Managements concludes in Barcelona[13/10/2009]
On 7th, 8th and 9th October the 5th International Seminar on Cultural Management took place in Barcelona Media. The event was organized by the UNESCO Chair on Cultural Policy of Cooperation of the University of Girona in collaboration with the Laboratory of Culture and Tourism of Barcelona Media - Innovation Center.+ Read more -
IMP[06/10/2009]
The partners of the European project IMP (Intelligent Processing and Metadata-driven distribution of audiovisual media), coordinated by Barcelona Media, have held the third technical meeting on 2nd and 3rd September, at the the University of Galway, Ireland.+ Read moreBarcelona Media co-organizer of the Interacción 2009 congress[30/09/2009]
Interacción 2009 is an international congress whose main objective is to promote and disseminate recent advances in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, both academic and corporate.+ Read moreBarcelona Media at the international congress PICNIC 2009[30/09/2009]
Barcelona Media has participated in the event Creative Ecosystems Lab, organized by IIP CREATE and held in Amsterdam from 24 to 25 September 2009, as part of the international congress PICNIC 2009.+ Read moreBarcelona Media at the mLife Conference 2009[30/09/2009]
Barcelona Media ha participado en la conferencia mLife, parte de la mSOCIETY 2009, la 2 ª Conferencia Internacional sobre la Sociedad móvil, que se celebró en el CCCB, Barcelona, del 2 al 4 de septiembre.+ Read more -
LivingKnowledge[30/09/2009]
Barcelona Media hosted on 2nd to 4th September, the first technical meeting of the European project LivingKnowledge (LivingKnowledge - Facts, Opinions and Bias in Time). The project, which began on 1 February this year, will run for 30 months and is coordinated by the Universita Degli Studi di Trento.+ Read moreBarcelona Media at the IBC 2009, Amsterdam[16/09/2009]
Barcelona Media has participated at the IBC in Amsterdam from 10th to 15th of September. The IBC is an international forum for the media industry which attracts over 1,300 exhibitors from over 130 countries.+ Read moreThe Culture and Tourism Lab collaborates in the organization of the II Creative Cities sessions[15/07/2009]
The second edition of the Creative Cities conference will be held on November, 26th and 27th , 2009 in the auditorium of the Imagina building at the Parc Barcelona Media, in the 22 @ district of Barcelona.+ Read moreMobile Immersive Technologies by Jyri Huopaniemi[26/06/2009]
On Monday, June 29th the seminar Mobile Immersive Technologies by Jyri Huopaniemi took place in Barcelona Media. In this seminar, an overview of existing and future technologies for mobile immersion were discussed.+ Read more -
The Business and Culture of Social Media, by Marty Kaplan and Johanna Blakley[17/06/2009]
On June, 26th, Barcelona Media held the conference "The Business of Social Media and Culture" by Marty Kaplan and Johanna Blakley.+ Read moreBarcelona Media constitutes its International Scientific Committee[11/06/2009]
The 5th and 6th of June saw the establishment of the Barcelona Media International Scientific Committee. This first meeting took place at the centre’s facilities located in the 22@Barcelona district. The main objective was to appraise the whole of the research and development and innovation activity in the various lines and laboratories at the centre.+ Read moreThe Mediapro building, Barcelona Media's headquarters, granted the BigMat architecture prize[01/06/2009]
The Mediapro building that houses the headquarters of Barcelona Media in the 22 @ district, has won the first prize BigMat for architecture. The building, designed by the architects Carles Ferrater, Patrick Genard and Xavier Martí was nominated for the World Architecture Festival (WAF).+ Read more -
Xavier Binefa's seminar: Cognitive Media Technologies[15/05/2009]
Xavier Binefa i Valls, lecturer at the Information and Communication Department of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Sub director of Infrastructures and Strategies at the Escola Superior Politècnica of the same university, explained the Research Lines of the Cognitive Media Technologies group in the seminar organized by Barcelona Media on May 12th.+ Read moreFirst International Workshop on Content Analysis for the WEB 2.0[01/05/2009]
The Information Management research line of Barcelona Media Innovation Centre has successfully organized the First International Workshop on Content Analysis for the WEB 2.0 on April, 21st. The Workshop was part of the technical program at the 18th International World Wide Web Conference held in Madrid.+ Read moreBarcelona Media organizes a dissemination activity of the European Project Autolearn, of which it is the coordinator[30/04/2009]
Barcelona Media organizes a dissemination activity of the European Project Autolearn, on April, 24th and 25th. Under the name “Strategies and techniques for incorporating intellingent presential and semipresential environments”, various theoretical and practical points of view were presented on the application of new technologies in the language class.+ Read moreSergio Sayago, of Graphics and Interaction, wins the Best Paper Award at the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility[28/04/2009]
The article “About the relevance of accessibility barriers in the everyday interactions of older people with the web”, by Sergio Sayago, researcher of the Graphics and Interaction research line at Barcelona Media, has won the award to the best article in the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility 2009 (W4A-ACM)+ Read more -
Vicente López, new member of the Rector Council of the Spanish Federation of Technological Centres[21/04/2009]
Vicente López, vice president of Barcelona Media, was elected member of the Rector Council of the Spanish Federation of Technological Centres (FEDIT in its orginal Spanish initials) at the XXVI Ordinary General Assembly, during which seven members of the management team were reelected.+ Read moreThe Culture and Tourism Lab presents the Master Plan For Sustainable Tourism Development of Hue City[20/04/2009]
Damià Moragues, accompanied by Jordi Pardo and Ana Requejo, from the Barcelona Media’s Culture and Tourism Lab, has presented the outline of the Master Plan For Sustainable Tourism Development of Hue City at the Popular Committee ‘s headquarters in the city of Hue (Vietnam).+ Read moreThe partners of the European project iMP, coordinated by Barcelona Media, celebrate the second technical meeting[27/03/2009]
The partners of the European project iMP (Intelligent Metadata-driven Processing audiovisual and distribution of media), coordinated by Barcelona Media, celebrated on March, 25th and 26th, the second technical meeting, in the Apuntalapospo’s and Barcelona Media’s headquarters, respectively.+ Read moreJordi Pardo participates in Buenos Aires in the VI Euro-American Campus of Cultural Cooperation[27/03/2009]
The director of the Barcelona Media’s Culture and Tourism Lab, Jordi Pardo, has pronounced a lecture with the title "Industry, Culture, Innovation and Development", within the framework of the VI Euro-American Campus of Cultural Cooperation, that has been celebrated in Buenos Aires from March, 24th to 27th, and that has gathered more than three hundred…+ Read more -
Barcelona Media and UPC organize a session to promote the computational processing of Catalan[26/03/2009]
+ Read moreJordi Pardo pronounces the lecture "Culture and communication in the context of the creative economy" in Uruguay[24/03/2009]
The director of the Barcelona Media ‘s Culture and Tourism Laboratory , Jordi Pardo, has pronounced, on 23 March, the lecture "Culture and communication in the context of the creative economy", organized by the Departament d’Indústries Creatives (DICREA), of the Direcció Nacional de Cultura del Ministeri d’Educació i Cultura d’Uruguai, within the framework of the…+ Read moreMediapro and Barcelona Media present the CENIT i3media project in a seminar organized by the Xarxa d’Innovació and ACT[23/03/2009]
Mediapro and Barcelona Media will present the CENIT i3media project, in the seminar "Funding of Entrepreneurial R+D+i Projects ", which will be celebrated on 31 March and which is organized by the Xarxa Innovació de Foment del Treball and the Associació Catalana de Tecnologia (ACT).+ Read more -
Yahoo! Research welcomes fifty secondary school students in a session about Internet in the framework of The Escolab initiative[12/03/2009]
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, director of the Yahoo! Research Barcelona and scientific director of the Barcelona Media Information Management research line, pronounced the lecture, on 11 March, "The power of searching" in front of fifty secondary school students.+ Read moreThe SEMEDIA project, coordinated by Barcelona Media and Yahoo! Research, successful in the goals for the second year[11/03/2009]
The SEMEDIA project, coordinated by Barcelona Media and the Yahoo! Research Barcelona, accomplishes the goals of the second year successfully. That has been the consensus of the European Commission project manager and of the two external evaluators, in the second annual meeting of the project, which was celebrated in the Barcelona Media headquarters, on March…+ Read moreThe Town Council of Barcelona and Barcelona Media promote the first virtual model of the streets, buildings and neighborhoods of the city[03/03/2009]
The Town Council of Barcelona and Barcelona Media promote the Barcelona project 3D, the first virtual model of the streets, buildings and neighborhoods of the city, that will allow citizens, municipal services and companies to appeal the city across Internet with more detail, as vice president of Barcelona Media, Vicente López, has explained.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media hosts the ninth meeting of the European Think Tank Network for Digital Content Industries[26/02/2009]
Barcelona Media has hosted, on February 23rd and 24th , the ninth meeting of the European Think Tank Network for Digital Content Industries or Digibusiness Think Tank, of which it is founding member. This group was born as initiative of the cluster of digital contents of Finland, Culminatum Ltd, and was started like a project…+ Read moreThe Virtual Visualization Laboratory generates a three dimensional model of the Mercat del Born in the restoration process[25/02/2009]
The Barcelona Media Virtual Visualization Laboratory has generated the three dimensional model of the Mercat del Born and its| environment, within the framework of the presentation of the process of restoration and adequacy of the building, celebrated in the Archive of the Museum of History.+ Read moreBarcelona Activa and Barcelona Media sign an agreement to promote the enterprising initiative in the creative industries sector[23/02/2009]
The president of Barcelona Activa and deputy mayor of Treasury and Economic Promotion of the Town Council of Barcelona, Jordi William Carnes, and the vice president of Barcelona Media, Vicente López, have signed an agreement that establishes the collaboration between both institutions in the areas of company creation, entrepreneurial growth, management of the human capital…+ Read moreBarcelona Media has welcomed the WSDM’09 congress about web research and data mining organized by Yahoo! Research[22/02/2009]
The headquarters of Barcelona Media, in the Imagina building, have gathered over 200 researchers of 28 countries from all over the world, in the second international congress WSDM'09 about web research and data mining organized by the Yahoo! Research Barcelona, with the collaboration of Barcelona Media and the University Pompeu Fabra.+ Read more -
Michele Marino pronounces a conference on professional applications of virtual visualization in Mataró[20/02/2009]
Michele Marino director of the Virtual Visualization Laboratory (LV2), and responsible for Business Development of Barcelona Media, will pronounce the lecture "Professional applications of three dimensional virtual visualization".+ Read moreRicard Ruiz de Querol joins Barcelona Media as senior researcher of the Information, Technology and Society research line[19/02/2009]
Ricard Ruiz de Querol has joined Barcelona Media as a senior researcher of the line of Information, Technology and Society. His career has developed completely in the sector of the Information Technologies and he has occupied managerial posts in Olivetti, Institut Cerdà, and Telefonica, where, in the last stage, he was director of Information Society.+ Read moreThe European Project Trans2Tech implements a portal of technological offers[17/02/2009]
The European project Trans2Tech, of which Barcelona Media has been partner, has implemented a portal (www.trans2tech.eu) that integrates the technological offer of several European academic and applied research institutions. This new web site space is part of the results of the project, which finished last year.+ Read moreXavier Cubeles analyzes the innovation in the media sector in Catalonia in the III Urban Clusters Session[16/02/2009]
Xavier Cubeles, researcher of the Barcelona Media Culture and Tourism Laboratory, has analyzed the results of a survey, carried out and promoted by BM, about the innovation of the companies of the media sector in Catalonia.+ Read more -
Stan Matwin presents his works on data anonymization in a seminar in Barcelona Media[12/02/2009]
Stan Matwin, teacher of Computer Science at the University of Ottawa and in the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, pronounced, on February 12th, the seminar "Data mining and privacy", in Barcelona Media.+ Read moreBarcelona Media organizes a session about the media sector in the 3rd Symposium on Urbans Clusters[09/02/2009]
Barcelona Media organizes and moderates one of the parallel sessions of the 3rd Symposium on Urbans Clusters, organized by the 22@Barcelona, in collaboration with ACC1Ó and the Barcelona’s Town Hall, which will be celebrated on 12th February at the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB).+ Read moreXavier Cubeles joins the Culture and Tourism Lab as researcher of Barcelona Media[03/02/2009]
Xavier Cubeles, specialist in economy and management of the culture and communication sectors, joins Barcelona Media to be part of the team of the Culture and Tourism Lab and as a researcher of the centre.+ Read moreNúria Basi, president of the UPF Board of Trustees, visits Barcelona Media[29/01/2009]
Núria Basi, president of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Board of Trustees and member of the Barcelona Media Board of Trustees, visits the new headquarters of the centre, together with the secretary of the UPF Board of Trustees, Margarida Gual.+ Read more -
Marta Ysern presents BM in Hamburg in a session about business opportunities in new technologies of the city of Barcelona[28/01/2009]
Marta Ysern, in charge of BM Special Projects, presented the centre in the session “Opening new markets for innovative services and technologies” organized by the Barcelona Town Hall, 22@Barcelona and Living Labs Global.+ Read moreJordi Pardo participates in a cycle of Cultural Tourism and Museums of the Universitary School of Tourism of Lanzarote[20/01/2009]
Jordi Pardo, director of the Barcelona Media Culture Lab, participated, on 16th January, in the Cycle of Meetings about Cultural Tourism and Museums, which in its second edition has concentrated on the cultural tourism management.+ Read moreA delegate of the Industrial Policy Department of Sendai, Japan, visits the BM Culture Lab[20/01/2009]
Youko Endou, delegate of the Industrial Policy Department of the city of Sendai (Japan), had a meeting, on 21st January, with the Culture Lab.+ Read moreBarcelona Media organize the kick-off meeting of iMP European project[16/01/2009]
Barcelona Media celebrates, on 15th and 16th January, at its headquarters, in the Imagina building, the kick-off meeting of the European project iMP (Intelligent Metadata-driven Processing and distribution of audiovisual media).+ Read more -
Barcelona Media collaborates in the development of an orthographic and grammatical corrector promoted by the Generalitat[14/01/2009]
Barcelona Media has collaborated, together with the Computational Linguistic Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in the development of El Corrector, an orthographic and grammatical corrector of the Catalan language in open code, promoted by the Secretaria de Política Lingüística de la Generalitat de Catalunya.+ Read moreBarcelona Media and Mediapro welcome the third meeting of the European Project 2020 3D Media[12/01/2009]
The Imagina building, headquarters of Mediapro and Barcelona Media, will be the stage of the third meeting for the fourteen partners that integrate the consortium of the European research project 2020 3D Media.+ Read moreJordi Pardo participates at New York MoMA in the presentation of the project Linguamón-Casa de les Llengües consortium[18/12/2008]
Jordi Pardo, director of the BM Cultural Lab, has participated in the presentation of the project Linguamón – Casa de les Llengües, in an act organized by the consortium, with the collaboration of the Institute Ramon Llull, which has taken place at the MoMA in New York, with the attendance of more than two hundred…+ Read more -
BM Seminars: Pere Garcia Calvés presents the CSIC Artificial Intelligence Research Institute[16/12/2008]
Pere Garcia Calvés, scientific titular of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the Scientific Superior Research board, presented the centre at the session of the BM seminars cycle on 16th December, organized by Barcelona Media.+ Read moreDamià Moragues, from the BM Culture Lab, presents the Vietnam Tourism Marketing Plan[12/12/2008]
Damià Moragues, expert in tourism of the BM Culture Lab has delivered the final document of the Vietnam Tourism Marketing Plan to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID).+ Read moreThe BM Cultural Lab writes the Overview Plan for the city of Hue, the old imperial capital of Vietnam[12/12/2008]
The BM Cultural Lab is writing the overview plan for the city of Hue, the old imperial capital of Vietnam, within the frame of a project financed by the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID).+ Read moreJordi Pardo and Damià Moragues participate in the I National Congress of Cultural Politics of Peru, in the frame of the IMPULSO programme[11/12/2008]
The I National Congress of Cultural Politics is celebrated in Lima and it is organized by the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) and the Instituto Nacional de Cultura del Perú (INC), with more than 500 participants.+ Read more -
Santi Fort participates in the third edition of the Cinema Festivals Day at the CCCB[10/12/2008]
Santi Fort, technical coordinator of the Barcelona Media (BM) Graphic research line has participated in the round table “Relationship between new exhibition forms and new public”, framed in the events of the third edition of the Cinema Festivals Day, organized by CI & VI Catalonia Festivals (Festivals coordinator and Catalonia cinema shows).+ Read moreJosep M. Pujol radiographs the PQ, a searcher prototype distributed for the net, in a seminar organized by Yahoo![05/12/2008]
Josep Maria Pujol, researcher of the Telefonica Research Internet Research Group, radio graphed on 4th December, at the Barcelona Media headquarters, the PQ, a research prototype distributed for the net, at the conference “Towards a Socially Driven Search Engine: harvesting the knowledge of you peers”, organized by Yahoo! Research Barcelona.+ Read moreBarcelona Media and sixteen more technological agents join together in the Catalan Technology Association[04/12/2008]
Barcelona Media is one of the technological agents in Catalonia which have unified their efforts to constitute the Catalan Technology Association, under the brand ACT.+ Read moreA Barcelona Media team attends the biannual meeting at the ICT 08 in Lyon, organized by the European Union[03/12/2008]
A Barcelona Media team, led by the vice president, Vicente López, attended the biannual meeting ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) organized by the European Union. This year’s edition took place in Lyon (France) from 25th to 27th November and gathered nearly 4.000 delegates around Europe.+ Read more -
BM and Dotopen organize a Mobile Monday Barcelona about the importance of the social networks in the mobile sector[01/12/2008]
The ESADE Business School Forum holds, on 1st December, the Mobile Monday Barcelona, organized by Barcelona Media and Dotopen. The session is called Mobile Social Media and turns around the importance of the social networks in the mobile sector.+ Read moreJesús Giménez analyzes the empirical machine translation and its evaluation[27/11/2008]
The professor of the Computer languages and Systems department of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), exposed on 27th November, at the Barcelona Media headquarters, his doctoral dissertation about empirical machine translation and its evaluation, in the seminar organized by Yahoo! Research Barcelona.+ Read moreSuccess in the degree of participation for the Inside 22@ exhibition and the pARTicipa project of the Cognition and Interactivity BM research line[26/11/2008]
The pARTicipa 22@ project of the Barcelona Media Cognition and Interactivityline, which was presented in the frame of the Barcelona visual arts and contemporary music festival, Inside22@, on 6th and 8th November, has been very successful by its degree of participation.+ Read moreBM participates in a project led, at scientific level, by the Fundació Parc Taulí about a system based on biomedical signals[25/11/2008]
Barcelona Media participates in the project “Expert system based on biomedical signals” in the frame of the Avanza R+D 2008 programme of the Industry, Tourism and Commerce Ministry and which is led, at scientific level, the Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí - Fundació Parc Taulí.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media organizes a session with the CDTI about the different lines of support for R+D projects[20/11/2008]
Barcelona Media organized, on 20th November, an informative session about the different lines of support for R+D of the CDTI (Centre for the industrial technological development), in order to develop projects of creation and consolidation of technology based companies, both individual and joint.+ Read moreJordi Pericot, elected member of the Catalan Royal Academy of Art of Sant Jordi[17/11/2008]
Jordi Pericot, scientific director of the Barcelona Media Design and Creativity research line, has been elected member of the Catalan Royal Academy of Art Sant Jordi. The act of entrance will take place on 19th November, at 19h, at the Academy headquarters, Passeig Isabel II, 1, Casa Llotja, 2n, Barcelona.+ Read moreThe Technological centres gathered together in the Barcelona Activa map of research and innovation[10/11/2008]
Barcelona Media is one of the technological centres that appear in the Barcelona’s map of research and innovation, an application developed by Barcelona Activa that places in the map of the metropolitan area all the companies and environment for support to the innovation, the main research centres of technological base and applied innovation success examples.+ Read moreThe Barcelona Media Cognition and Interactivity research line presents the pARtipa project within the Inside 22@[04/11/2008]
The Barcelona Media Cognition and Interactivity research line will present on 7th November, from 17.30 to 00.30h, the pARTicipa 22@ project, in the frame of the Inside 22@ a Barcelona visual arts and contemporary music exhibition, that will be celebrated on 6th, 7th and 8th November, in several sceneries of the technological district 22@ Barcelona.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media participates in the central act of InterACC1Ó with 3.000 Catalan entrepreneurs[15/10/2008]
Barcelona Media will take part, on 28th October, in the central act of InterACC1Ó, a new event of reference for the Catalan business, organized by ACC1Ó, the agency ascribe to the Innovation, University and Company Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya.+ Read moreThe European project PATExpert, coordinated by BM, finishes with fulfilled objectives and success[14/10/2008]
The European project PATExpert, coordinated by Barcelona Media (BM) has successfully accomplished the objectives settled, after the pre established 30 months (from February 2006 to July 2008). And so has been ratified by the representative and the two external supervisors designated by the European Commission, in the final review of the project celebrated on 21st…+ Read moreThe NextFun 2007 grants results will be presented within the ArtFutura festival 2008[13/10/2008]
On 25th October, at 16h, in the session “Foro de Creació i Empresa ArtFutura 2008”, organised and moderated by Santi Fort, of Barcelona Media (BM), the results of the NextFun 2007 grants will be presented. The session will be held in the frame of the 19th edition of the Artfutura Festival, which will take place…+ Read moreThe European project ICING receives an excellent from the European Commission in the final revision[12/10/2008]
The European project ICING (Intelligent Cities of the Next Generation) of which BM is a technological partner, has received the “excellent” qualification from the representative and three visitors of the European Commission, after the final review of the project, celebrated on 25th September at the BM headquarters.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media participates in the Ready4Growth seminar organized by BCN Activa[08/10/2008]
The Ready4Growth seminar organized by Barcelona Activa is celebrated on 13th and 14th October, in collaboration with Parc Barcelona Media and Mobile Monday. The sessions are addressed to a maximum of 25 small companies dedicated to the development of technology, multimedia contents and new business models about mobile technology, that might wish to improve their…+ Read moreBM Seminars: Fabrizio Silvestri analyses the last researches in distributed information retrieval systems[03/10/2008]
The researcher Fabrizio Silvestri has analysed the recent results in Distributed Information Retrievals Systems to the assistants of the 9th October session of BM Seminars’ cycle, which are organized by Barcelona Media. The conference was titled “Collection Prioritization and Incremental Caching”.+ Read moreBM Seminars: Leo Wanner presents the Natural Language Processing Group at BM[01/10/2008]
Leo Wanner, professor of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Pompeu Fabra University and director of Natural Language Processing Group at Barcelona Media, has presented the main research areas of the group to the assistants of the 7th October session of BM Seminars’ cycle, which are organized by Barcelona Media.+ Read moreMobileMonday Madrid, organized by Barcelona Media and Dotopen, analyzes the mobile Internet platforms[26/09/2008]
The Assembly Hall of the IE Madrid Business School (Maria Molina, 11) will be the site for Mobile Monday Madrid, on 29th September, which is organized by Barcelona Media and Dotopen.+ Read more -
The Culture Lab organizes a seminar for SEBRAE about culture as a factor for local development[23/09/2008]
The Barcelona Media Culture Lab has organized, for the Brazilian Support Service for Micro and Small Companies of Brazil (SEBRAE, in their abbreviation in Brazilian) a seminar about the interaction between culture and technology and the idea of culture as a factor for local development.+ Read moreBarcelona Media participates in the volunteering project organized by 22@Network[22/09/2008]
Barcelona Media is one of the entitites which collaborates in the Volunteering project organized by 22@network, the association of companies and institutions of the technological district 22@ Barcelona.+ Read moreJordi Pardo participates in an international seminar about culture and development[18/09/2008]
The Barcelona Media Cultural Lab director, Jordi Pardo, has participated in the International Seminar “Culture: a development factor” that has been celebrated in the headquarters of the Lima Cultural Centre of Spain, in Peru.+ Read moreBarcelona Media welcomes the biannual meeting of the European project @neurIST[17/09/2008]
The new Barcelona Media headquarters, in the IMAGINA building in Avinguda Diagonal, 177, welcomes the biannual meeting of the European project @neurIST, on 17th September, which continues on 18th and 19th September in the França building, at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media and the Roberto Marinho Foundation sign a collaboration agreement[15/09/2008]
Vicente López, vice president of Barcelona Media, and José Roberto Marinho, president of the Roberto Marinho Foundation and vice president of the communication group Globo, have signed a collaboration agreement between both entities.+ Read moreThe IP-RACINE project, in Euronews[09/09/2008]
The European news channel Euronews broadcasted, from 28th August to 3rd September, in several spaces of its programme, the documentary entitled “Futuris: from scene to screen”, about the last discoveries in the digital cinema field contributed by the IP-RACINE project.+ Read moreBarcelona Media moves to the centre of the 22@ technological district[03/09/2008]
Barcelona Media (BM) moves to the 22@ district of Barcelona. BM, that until now had the headquarters in Carrer Ocata, 1, next to the Estació de França of Barcelona, has settled in three plants of the IMAGINA building, in the Avinguda Diagonal, 177.+ Read moreThe i3media project reaches successfully its first year research objectives[16/07/2008]
The i3media project, for the creation and automated management of intelligent audiovisual contents, has reached successfully its objectives of the first year of validity.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media and Pompeu Fabra University researchers win the Eye Tracking Prize[09/07/2008]
A researchers group from Barcelona Media (BM) and Pompeu Fabra University has been rewarded with the Eye Tracking Prize, in recognition to the best research work that uses ocular follow-up technology, called “eye tracking”.+ Read moreThe Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics of America awards prize to Vicent Caselles[08/07/2008]
Vicent Caselles, head scientist for the Image line at Barcelona Media (BM), has been awarded one of the Best Scientific Article prizes, which the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics of America (SIAM) awards every year.+ Read moreYahoo! Research analyses the enabling bandwidth adaptation in streaming overlays and the semantic desktops, in two seminars[07/07/2008]
Yahoo! Research Barcelona organized, on 3rd and 7th July, in the Barcelona Media headquarters, two seminars to analyse the distributed systems and the enabling bandwidth adaptation in streaming overlays and the semantic desktops.+ Read moreThe BM Virtual Visualization Lab 'creates' the new CMT headquartes in Barcelona[04/07/2008]
The Barcelona Media (BM) Virtual Visualization Lab has created the virtual simulation of the new headquarters for the Comissió del Mercat de les Telecomunicacions (CMT), in the technological district 22@, in Barcelona.+ Read more -
Researchers of PATExpert European project celebrate a seminar in Vilobí d’Onyar[04/07/2008]
Researchers of the PATExpert European project coordinated by Barcelona Media (BM), have a meeting these days to celebrate the seminar “PATExpert paraphrasing and summarization framework exploitation and dissemination”.+ Read moreBM Seminars: Gustavo Deco presents the research lines at Computational Neuroscience Group of the UPF[03/07/2008]
Gustavo Deco, professor of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies Pompeu Fabra University, researcher at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and a head of Computational Neuroscience Group, has presented the main research areas of the group to the assistants of the 2nd July session of the BM Seminars’ cycle, which…+ Read moreThe European Commission certifies the “success” of IP-RACINE, a BM coordinated project, which ensures the competitivity of the digital cinema[25/06/2008]
IP-RACINE project has successfully concluded according to the four evaluators designated by the European Commission. The main goal of the project was to integrate all the digital cinema processes, from the scene to the screen.+ Read moreRicardo Baeza of Yahoo! Research Barcelona to open Ibiza congress on virtual worlds[18/06/2008]
Ricardo Baeza, Director of the Yahoo! Research Barcelona centre (based at Barcelona Media [BM]), will be one of the speakers at the first Congress on Metaverses, "3-D Web and Social Networks in Virtual Worlds", and which will be held in Ibiza on 20th-22nd June.+ Read more -
The team of the ICING european project presents the last results in Barcelona[18/06/2008]
On 26th June, Barcelona welcomed the workshop “Innovative Cities for the Next Generation”, which included a presentation of the latest innovations from the ICING project (Intelligent Cities of the Next Generation), of which Barcelona Media is a technological partner.+ Read moreBarcelona Media Seminars: Hector Geffner presents the research about action selection in intelligent systems[17/06/2008]
Hector Geffner has presented the research line of the Artificial Intelligent Group (AI-UPF) about the action selection in intelligent systems, in the Seminar session of 17th June organized by Barcelona Media.+ Read moreBarcelona Media welcomes the SEMEDIA project partners in a technical follow-up meeting[11/06/2008]
Barcelona Media (BM) headquarters hold the technical follow-up meeting of the SEMEDIA project on 11th and 12th June. The encounter gathers representatives of the nine partners of the European research programme, among which we find BM. The purpose is to supervise the work done in the last few months and to plan the forthcoming tasks.+ Read moreThe BREIN project newsletter informs about the incorporation of Barcelona Media as a new member of the Consortium[10/06/2008]
The second issue of the BREIN project newsletter emphasizes the incorporation of Barcelona Media (BM) as the new member of the European project Consortium. The publication includes a short description of BM and the High Performance Computing Centre in Stuttgart (HLRS), another partnert.+ Read more -
BM Seminars: Miquel Oliver presents the research lines at NeTS-UPF Group[03/06/2008]
Miquel Oliver has presented the main research areas of the group to the assistants of the 3rd June session of BM Seminars’ cycle, which are organized by Barcelona Media.+ Read moreMichele Marino takes part in the round table about 3D web navigation of the VII Forum TIG-SIG 2008[30/05/2008]
Michele Marino, director of the Laboratory of Virtual Visualization of Barcelona Media (BM), will participate, on 5 June, at 16 hours, in the round table "Navigation 3D: fashion or need?”.+ Read moreJordi Pardo opens a seminar on cultural management in Bolivia[20/05/2008]
Jordi Pardo, the Director of the Cultural Lab at Barcelona Media (BM), has taken part in the seminar “Participation of social agents in the promotion of culture and development”, held in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra on 19th-22nd May.+ Read more -
Gleb Skobeltsyn analyses the results caching technique in a Yahoo! Research seminar[19/05/2008]
Yahoo! Research Barcelona celebrates, 19 May, the seminar “ResIn: a combination of results caching and index pruning for high-performance web search engines”, in the head office of Barcelona Media (BM).+ Read moreYahoo! Research analyses temporal contexts in automatic text classification[08/05/2008]
Yahoo! Research Barcelona celebrates, 8 May, the seminar entitled “Exploring Temporal Contexts in Automatic Text Classification”, in the head office of Barcelona Media (BM). The session is leading by Leonardo Rocha, of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, from Brazil.+ Read moreMercè Sala, member of the Board of Trustees of Barcelona Media, dies[07/05/2008]
Mercè Sala, member of the Board of Trustees of Barcelona Media (BM), passed away on the morning of 7th May after a long illness. Mercè Sala was involved in, and gave her to support to BM from its inception.+ Read moreThe i3media project closes its first year after having achieved all its objectives[06/05/2008]
i3media, a technology research and development project for the creation and automated management of intelligent audiovisual content, has just successfully completed its first year of research, having achieved all the objectives initially proposed.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media, present in Ontario Discovery 08 through ACC1ó[05/05/2008]
Barcelona Media (BM) will be present, on 12 and 13 may, in Discovery 2008, the third annual conference of Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), one of the premier innovation and commercialization showcase, through the institutional stand of ACC1ó, the agency for enterprise support, created by the Catalan government.+ Read moreBarcelona Media hosts the meeting for the revision of the Mobile City Moments project[05/05/2008]
The head office of Barcelona Media (BM) was the venue for the meeting to revise the European project Mobile City Moments (MCM); it was attended by representatives from nine out of the twelve partners that make up the project's consortium, one of which is BM.+ Read moreBrazilian musician Paulo Jobim visits Barcelona Media to look into future collaborations[29/04/2008]
The Brazilian musician Paulo Jobim ─ the son of Antonio Carlos 'Tom' Jobim, considered one of the leading international representatives of Bossa Nova ─ has visited the head office of Barcelona Media (BM) to consider future collaborations in Rio de Janeiro.+ Read moreVicente López: “For innovation to take place, both artistic and scientific creativity are essential"[28/04/2008]
Fortune magazine mentions Barcelona Media’s role and quotes comments of Vicente López, director general of BM, in May special issue, dedicated to the 500 America’s largest corporations.+ Read more -
Catalonia's audiovisual sector must grow looking out toward the world[24/04/2008]
The Catalan audiovisual sector has to grow by opening itself up to the world: this is one of the conclusions of the report entitled The audiovisual sector in Catalonia, is the motor running?, which was co-drafted by Vicente López, Director General of Barcelona Media (BM).+ Read moreDTT, digitalisation and audiovisualisation facilitate the introduction of High Definition[24/04/2008]
The mass introduction of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), and the digitalisation and audiovisualisation of society represent facilitating factors for the introduction of high-definition (HD), according to the report The high-definition market in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area of influence, drafted by David Xirau of Mediapro.+ Read moreQuantel presents Stereoscopic 3D, a pioneering tool in real-time image post-production[23/04/2008]
The digital technology firm Quantel will be making a presentation in Barcelona of Stereoscopic 3D, a pioneering tool in the real-time post-production of three-dimensional images.+ Read moreThe April Update Breakfast 22@ presents the situation of audiovisual sector in Catalonia[22/04/2008]
The April 22@Update Breakfast, organized by 22@Barcelona, will give, Thursday 24th, an overview of the current state of the audiovisual sector in Catalonia, paying special attention to the Barcelona Metropolitan Area.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media Seminars: Research lines at BM's Voice and Language Group[16/04/2008]
Toni Badia have presented the main work and research areas of BM’s Voice and Language Group: general language processing, linguistic correction techniques, extraction of linguistic information, machine translation, sign language and voice synthesis.+ Read moreBarcelona Media management present centre to Gilberto Gil, Minister of Culture for Brazil[14/04/2008]
Barcelona Media executives have presented the BM centre to Brazil's Minister of Culture, the singer Gilberto Gil, who gave a concert in Barcelona on Saturday 12 April.+ Read moreHeritage as an element of territorial and economic element[03/04/2008]
Friday, April 4. Jordi Pardo, director of Barcelona Media's Cultural Lab, and Gemma Carbó, expert in cultural management and education, will participate at the seminar “Heritage as a resource for economic and territorial development” at the Universitat de Girona.+ Read moreBarcelona Media Seminar: Cultural Lab[20/03/2008]
Els projectes del Laboratori de Cultura de Barcelona Media. Innovació i transferència, by Jordi Pardo.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media Seminar: the Virtual Visualization Lab[12/03/2008]
Michele Marino presented an overview of Barcelona Media’s Virtual Visualization Lab, focussing on the work carried out in urbanism.+ Read moreKick-off meeting of the European Project 2020 3D Media[06/03/2008]
March 6-7, 2008. Kick off meeting of the European Project 2020 3D Media: Spatial Sound and Vision, at Barcelona Media – Innovation Centre.+ Read moreTrans2Tech is organizing a workshop to bring closer industry and research[29/02/2008]
The European project Trans2Tech (European Commission, FP6), whose aim is to promote knowledge transfer at a European level, has organised the Workshop “Driving Innovation from Science to Business” , which will take place in Aix-en-Provence, France, on March, 6, 2008.+ Read more5th Barcelona Media Seminar: Information Management[27/02/2008]
About 70 people attended the 5th Barcelona Media Seminar, where Rafael Banchs presented the research carried out by Barcelona Media’s Information Management Group.+ Read more -
4th Barcelona Media Seminar: cognitive neuroscience of language[14/02/2008]
The fourth seminar of the series will take place next Tuesday, February 26: 'Neurociència cognitiva del llenguatge (i altres funcions cognitives)', by Núria Sebastián.+ Read moreKick off meeting of the Europan Project AUTOLEARN[14/02/2008]
Februrary, 18 and 19, at Barcelona Media: Kick-off meeting of the European project AUTOLearn, within the line of research Voice and Language.+ Read more2nd Symposium on Urban Clusters[07/02/2008]
Februrary 7, 2008: 2nd Symposium on Urban Clusters, organized by 22@Barcelona, CIDEM and the Barcelona City Council’s Economic Promotion area.+ Read morePresentation of IP RACINE at IDIFF[07/02/2008]
On January 30 and February 1, Barcelona Media was at IDIFF (International Digital Film Forum), at the Palais des Congrès de París, in order to present of the project IP-RACINE to the industry.+ Read more -
3rd Barcelona Media Seminar: Graphics and Interaction in Media and eLearning[31/01/2008]
The third seminar of the series took place on Tuesday, January 29: Graphics and Interaction in Media and eLearning, by Josep Blat.+ Read moreBarcelona Media Seminars: Interactive Technology Group[21/01/2008]
Barcelona Media – Innovation Centre is organizing a series of seminars in order to promote interdisciplinarity in the research area of the media.+ Read moreKick off meeting of the European Project APIDIS[19/01/2008]
The European Project APIDIS- Autonomous Production of Images based on Distributed and Intelligent Sensing – held its kickoff meeting at Barcelona Media – Innovation Centre last Thursday and Friday, January 17th and 18th, 2008.+ Read moreBarcelona Media Seminars: The Audio Group[17/01/2008]
Last Tuesday, January 15th, Adan Garriga presented the research carried out by Barcelona Media's Audio Group, in the second session of the Barcelona Media Seminars.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media Seminars: Audio Group[08/01/2008]
Barcelona Media – Innovation Centre is organizing a series of seminars in order to promote interdisciplinarity in the research area of the media.+ Read moreNatural Language Processing at Google, Enrique Alfonseca[10/12/2007]
The first seminar of the series took place on Wednesday, December 12, 2007: Natural language processing at Google, by Enrique Alfonseca.+ Read moreNatural Language Processing at Google[06/12/2007]
Barcelona Media – Innovation Centre is organizing a series of seminars in order to promote interdisciplinarity in the research area of the media.+ Read moreThe Virtual Visualization Lab launches an application for the sports club RCD Espanyol[05/12/2007]
Barcelona Media’s Virtual Visualization Laboratory has developed an interactive application for the Catalan sports club RCD Espanyol. The application offers a 3D visualization of the new stadium Cornellà-El Prat, which is still under construction.+ Read more -
Barcelona Media's Cultural Lab takes its experience to Brazil[03/12/2007]
Jordi Pardo, director of Barcelona Media’s Cultural Lab, will participate during this and next week in various conferences and forums on the importance of creative economy and the quinary sector.+ Read moreNew digital audioguides at the Museu Martítim of Barcelona[27/11/2007]
On November 28 the Museu Marítim of Barcelona will present its new audioguides with digital technology in PDA.+ Read moreCourse on Cooperation, Culture and Development[13/11/2007]
November 14, Madrid. Jordi Pardo, director of Barcelona Media's Cultural Laboratory, will participate on a seminar on Cooperation, Culture and Development organized by AECI.+ Read moreSessions about Culture and Cultural Affairs Management[13/11/2007]
During November 14,15 and 16 sessions on the Institutionalisation of Culture and Cultural Affairs Management (Institucionalización de la Cultura y Gestión Cultural) are being held in Madrid.+ Read more -
NextFun in the ArtFutura 2007 festival. 25th - 28th October in the Mercat de les Flors of Barcelona[24/10/2007]
The leisure society is arriving, and with it NextFun has been born, an international event concerning the entertainment of the future, and organised by Barcelona Media.+ Read moreBarcelona Media's Cultural Laboratory in the 3rd Technology Week in Granollers[06/10/2007]
Jordi Pardo, director of the Cultural Laboratory of Barcelona Media, will participate in the “New platforms for research, creation and discussion” round table, organised as part of the 3rd Technology Week of Granollers.+ Read moreBarcelona Media anticipates the future of the audiovisual world through i3media[10/01/2007]
i3media is a research and development project for the creation and automated management of intelligent audiovisual content.+ Read more
Events
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Barcelona Media welcomes the meeting of the European Creative Industries Alliance (ECIA) Policy meeting.[03/06/2013]
When: June 5-6, 2013 Where: Barcelona The next Policy Platform meeting (PLP) of ECIA will take place in Barcelona on the 5th and 6th of June 2013. The Learning Platform of the European Alliance of Creative Industries-ECIA will hold held on Thursday, June 6, a working meeting Barcelona Media’s premise. The European Alliance of Creative Industries (ECIA) is…+ Read moreInternational Tourism Show [09/04/2013]
Date: 19-21 April Location: Halls 1, 2 and plaza Universo Montjuïc The International Tourism Show becomes the european event where the latest trends in tourism products and new demand preferences meet.The show will be featuring a huge variety of national and international destinations: Mediterranean-based holidays, sports tourism routes, wine-related and gastronomic tourism, cruises, proposals for camping and…+ Read moreNAB Show[03/04/2013]
Date: April 6-11 Location: Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas NAB Show is the world's largest media and entertainment event. From creation to consumption, NAB Show is home to the solutions that transcend traditional broadcasting and embrace content delivery to new screens in new ways.+ Read moreInternational Conference: Innovation applied to Development[07/03/2013]
Date: March 14, 2013 Location: Events Center - Salvador de Bahia Shopping Business – Torre América – Salvador de Bahia. Travel Destinations more competitive and sustainable. This is one of Brazil's challenges in an era marked by the celebration of some of the most important events in the world. The conference, to be held on…+ Read more -
Barcelona Media shows its latest technology at Mobile World Congress[03/01/2013]
When: from 25 to 28 February 2013 Where: Fira de Barcelona (Avenida Juan Carlos I, 64. L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona) Barcelona Media showcase its latest technologies at the Mobile World Congress, which will have a booth in the App Planet Hall. The technology center will showcase the latest trends in social media, mobile apps and…+ Read moreVICENTE LÓPEZ MARTÍNEZ[10/12/2012]
It is with deep regret that we announce the untimely passing of Vicente López, Vice-president and co-founder of Barcelona Media. Vicente López died on Friday, December 7, 2012 in Barcelona. A funeral was held on Monday, December 10, 2012 outside the city in a private ceremony. We express our sincerest condolences to his family, friends…+ Read moreConference "Equity, development and citizenship", by Xavier Cubeles[01/12/2012]
When: Monday, December 17, 2012 at 9:45 am Where: La Pedrera (Paseo de Gracia 92, Barcelona) On December 17 th, Xavier Cubeles from the Barcelona Media Culture and Tourism Lab will participate at the VIII th Cultural Heritage Day in La Pedrera with a talk on "Equity, development and citizenship". The conference will follow the…+ Read moreCommunication and Civil Society: Digital Culture, Networks and Distributed Politics in the Internet Age[22/10/2012]
Communication and Civil Society:“Digital Culture, Networks and Distributed Politics in the Internet Age. From Global Spring to Net Democracy” When: 24 and October 25 Where: Roc Boronat, 117. Barcelona Organicer: UOC/IN3 Pablo Aragón, researcher of Barcelona Media, participates at the Conference on Communication and Civil Society, on the table about “Technopolitics and the 15-M Movement.…+ Read more -
The Conference Social Innovation Forum and Social technology: so and so?[05/10/2012]
When: October 15th, from 09.00 am to 14.00 pm Where: Auditorium of the University Pompeu Fabra (Roc Boronat, 138) Organizes: Telefonica-UPF Chair Social innovation and 'social media' are fashionable. But they are not social in the same way. The Conference Social Innovation Forum and Social technology: as for what? boasts the participation of speakers from…+ Read moreV Conference of Creative Cities, Public Spaces and Culture in Action [01/10/2012]
When: from 2 to 6 October Where: Medellín, Colombia Realization: Kreanta Foundation The most important meeting on topics related to creativity, public space and development. This edition boasts the participation of Richard Alves, technical director of Barcelona Media projects in Brazil.Read more V Conference of Creative Cities, Public Spaces and Culture in Action When: from…+ Read moreInternet, Politics, Policy 2012: Big Data, Big Challenges?[20/09/2012]
When: 20th - 21st September Where: St. Anne’s College, Oxford, UK Barcelona Media researcher Pablo Aragón will participate in “Internet, Politics, Policy 2012”, an academic conference that will discuss how to exploit Big Data to inform policy debates and advance social science research. Organised by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII, University of Oxford), the conference…+ Read moreConnect-EU: Boosts your R&D project in Europe [13/09/2012]
When: 20 September, 12.00 pm Where: Sala Sud, World Trade Center, Barcelona The Innovation Manager of Barcelona Media, Santi Fort, will participate in the Connect-EU conference, with a talk on "TIC and Media". The aim of the conference is to promote collaborative networking among attendees and the European Commission representatives, provide information on the possibilities…+ Read more -
Wikis and Open Collaboration Symposium[27/08/2012]
When: 27th-29th August Where: Linz, Austria Andreas Kaltenbrunner and David Laniado are to give a talk at the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. This symposium has been a gathering place for those interested in how we can use technologies like Wikis to support, develop and change collaboration and collective action.+ Read moreSeminar: "Vlogcast yourself: Understanding nonverbal behavior in social video" with Daniel Gatica-Pérez[25/06/2012]
Barcelona Media, in celebration of its 10th year anniversary, is pleased to invite you to a talk and discussion with Daniel Gatica-Pérez, director of Social Computing Group at IDIAP Research Institute – Valais, Switzerland. When: July 3, 2012Where: Barcelona Media, Avenida Diagonal 177 Program: 09:45 - 10:00 (Registration and coffee) 10:00 - 11:30 (seminar followed by a…+ Read moreAppCircus Developer Day, June 21 [13/06/2012]
AppCircus Developer Day is a free event for developers to discover new opportunities for creating revenue-generating mobile apps and succeed in the app economy. Developers of all levels as well as students will have the opportunity to learn about market trends of the mobile app ecosystem and participate in technical workshops conducted by industry experts…+ Read moreTalk "The Web: Wisdom of Crowds and the Long Tail" by Ricardo Baeza-Yates[21/05/2012]
Barcelona Media, in celebration of its 10th year anniversary, is pleased to invite you to a talk and discussion with: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, VP of Yahoo! Research for Europe, Middle East and Latin America Barcelona, SpainWhen:May 31, 2012Where:Imagina Auditorium (Barcelona Media), Avenida Diagonal 177Program:7:45 - 18:00 (Registration and coffee) 18:00 - 19:30 (Talk followed by a…+ Read more -
Brasil Central em Barcelona[08/05/2012]
Um total de 30 profissionais do setor público e privado do Brasil estão reunidos esta semana na Barcelona Media para discutir projetos e analisar experiências turísticas desenvolvidas em Barcelona e na Catalunha. A visita faz parte do processo de construção do Plano de Desenvolvimento Turístico do Brasil Central, promovido pelo SEBRAE e ABASE. Seu objetivo…+ Read more
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